Knowledge Management in Digital Era : A Memorial Volume of Veena Saraf

Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Knowledge management and collection development: 1.Knowledge management in libraries/A.S. Chandel and Mukesh Saikia. 2. Development of effective information resource base in academic libraries in digital era/Amitabha Chatterjee. 3. Collection development and evaluation/A.S. Chandel. II. Mapping of knowledge: 4. Canons of analytico synthetic classification/P.N. Kaula. 5. Mapping of the universe of knowledge in different classification schemes/M.P. Satija. III. System analysis: 6. Integrated library system design and development approaches/M.M. Kashyap. 7. System analysis: concept design model tools and techniques/Sewa Singh. IV. Digital library and e resource management: 8. Challenges of building digital library/A.S. Chandel and S.M. Mannan. 9. Institutional repository: problems and prospects/A.S. Chandel and F.R. Sumer. 10. Intellectual property rights: challenge to librarians in digital era/Ravinder Kumar Chadha and A.S. Chandel. 11. The open access movement/K.S. Raghavan. 12. Design and file formats of ebooks in electronic learning/Shailendra Kumar and Manisha Singh. 13. E-Resources and their management/A.S. Chandel. V. Information needs and services: 14. Changing paradigm of information needs and information seeking behaviour/A.S. Chandel, Veena Saraf and Muhammad Mezbah Ul Islam. 15. Re engineering and redefining library and library services in digital era/A.S. Chandel and Mukesh Saikia. 16. Library quality measures/A.S. Chandel and J. Thabah. 17. Promoting libraries in electronic environment/H.R. Chopra and P. Venkata Rao. 18. Applications of web 2.0 and library 2.0 technbologies at the INFLIBNET centre/Kruti J. Trivedi, Ashok Kumar Rai and Jagdish Arora. 19. Special libraries in India/Krishan Kumar. VI. Library management: 20. Academic library standards/A.S. Chandel and Medalda Challam. 21. Performance management with special reference to libraries/A.S. Chandel and Neelam Sharma. 22. Methods and techniques of evaluating library effectiveness/Veena Saraf, Muhammad Mezbah ul Islam and A.S. Chandel. VII. Library education: 23. Re orientation of LIS education: an Indian experience and scenario/H.N. Prasad. 24. Communication as a core competency for information professionals in the knowledge era/Roshan Lal Raina and Dinesh K. Gupta. Index.

The library professionals activities revolve around knowledge management which need new and highly sophisticated tools techniques and devices for effective organisation sharing and wider availability and accessibility in the present digital era necessitated by ever changing nee information and communication technology. Digital resources have outpaced and dominated printed material which are more complex in their organisation.

Present digital age is full of challenges for librarians which demands IT enabled library services competing with the services of Google Yahoo and other such information service provides and to meet the increased and varied information needs of users who are with changed information seeking behaviour in the present digital age. Todays libraries are expected to provide multiplied and improved services not limited to four walls of the institution which have changed the role and functions of librarians and libraries. Such new emerging areas have been covered and discussed in this volume.